Formula
1 Driver Biographies & Books Juan Manuel Fangio, Emerson Fittipaldi, Dan Gurney Mike Hawthorn, Mika Hakkinen,
Lewis Hamilton and
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This book describes Juan-Manuel Fangio's youth in Buenos Aires,
his first steps in motor racing in Argentina, and then his move to Europe where he scooped all Formula One honors. Like Fangio
himself, this illustrated biography also delivers comprehensive results, featuring several hundred photographs and car drawings.
Until last year, Juan-Manuel Fangio was the sole owner of the Formula One World Titles record, winning it a remarkable five times.
His unique style is much admired by Schumacher himself, who admits that drivers of the past were in another world.
Fangio flourished in an era
when racing was raw and romantic, when heroic drivers manhandled machines on
daunting and dangerous tracks that are no more. Ascari, Moss, Farina,
Brooks, Gonzalez, Varzi, Fagioli, De Portago, Castelloti, Musso, Schell,
Collins and Hawthorn - larger than life characters one and all, and all of
them beaten by Fangio, who was also left to mourn the deaths of far too many
of them.
This lavishly illustrated
volume fully chronicles Fangio's racing career: the early days; the 'Three
Fs' team at Alfa Romeo and winning his first championship in 1951; his
success with Maserati in 1953; his Carrera Panamericana win; World
Championship victories in 1954 and 1955 with Mercedes-Benz; 1956 and 1957
with Ferrari and Maserati, and battles with Stirling Moss; plus a look at
Fangio's calm personality, his awards and honors. Foreword by Karl Kling.
The great Juan Manuel Fangio
is the only man to win the Formula One World Championship five times. Now
race buffs can relive the Argentinean's incredible racing feats through the
remarkable photography featured in this book. Witness Fangio's career during
the 1950s as he drove classic Grand Prix cars for Alfa Romeo, Maserati,
Mercedes and Ferrari. Sure to get the pulse racing.
Emerson Fittipaldi, in 1972 crowned the youngest-ever World Champion at the age
of 25, won the title again two years later to prove that he was one of the most outstanding talents of his generation. He and his
brother Wilson realised their dream of creating the first Brazilian Grand Prix car. After a brief retirement, the bold Brazilian
forged a second magnificent career in IndyCar racing, in which he scored wins in ten consecutive seasons. Karl Ludvigsen - Emerson's
friend since the 1960s - tells the whole enthralling story.
Taking the racing world by storm, Dan Gurney and his All-American Racers
combined innovation and engineering excellence to produce the bold Eagle
cars. This illustrated history-a reprint of the original-follows Gurney, the
team and their cars through several seasons of Formula 1, Can-Am and IndyCar
competition.
Following his highly acclaimed coffee-table biographies of
Stirling Moss, Jackie Stewart, and Juan Manuel Fangio, Karl Ludvigsen affords the same lavish treatment to Dan Gurney. The legendary
American was a brilliant all-rounder, racing successfully in sports car, Formula 1, Indy, and endurance events as both a
manufacturer and a driver. Ludvigsen, who has known Gurney for more than four decades, packs the book with action and anecdote, and
a sumptuous selection of historic black-and-white and color photography
It had long been accepted within the Formula 1 community that
McLaren's Mika Hakkinen was one of - if not the - fastest driver in the
world. Nevertheless, doubts remained over whether this quiet, modest Finn
had both the consistency and the temperament to put together a season-long
championship challenge. The 1998 season destroyed that perception, and
silenced even Hakkinen's most vociferous critics. His defeat of double World
Champion Michael Schumacher in the race for the 1998 title confirmed him as
a genuine winner and a worthy champion. It also set him up as favourite to
retain the crown in 1999. Alan Henry, one of the most authoritative
journalists in the F1 paddock, tells the inside story of Mika's
extraordinary Formula 1 career, including his miraculous return to the
cockpit after his life threatening crash at Adelaide in 1995. He describes
the Finn's determined return to form and fitness in 1996; his first Grand
Prix win at the end of 1997 and his triumphant 1998 season. Henry also
examines in depth Hakkinen's battle with both Ferrari drivers, Jordan's
Heinz-Harald Frentzen and his own team-mate, David Coulthard, to retain the
crown in 1999.
With the text due for completion as the 2000 season gets underway and
published at the start of the European season, MIKA will be provide the most
authoritative and up-to-date account of the career of the man many now
regard as the finest driver in the world, bar none.
Mika Hakkinen is one of the fastest drivers in Formula 1 - in his first race for
Marlboro Mclaren in 1993, he outqualified Ayrton Senna. He is also known for his frequent crashes. The cheerful Finn's racing
ability and dogged optimism helped him hold the McLaren team together through their recent traumas, and to fight back after a
near-fatal accident to take fifth place in the 1996 drivers' World Championship. This work is his full story. It includes an
in-depth review of 1996 and the start of the 1997 season with expert analysis of the new McLaren chassis and Mercedes engine.
Lewis Hamilton is the record-breaking young British hero of Formula 1. His
phenomenal debut season was nothing short of a revelation, coming through
against all the odds to dominate and revolutionise the world of motor
racing. It was an outcome no one could have predicted: thrown in at the deep
end 'on a mighty whim' by McLaren team owner Ron Dennis, not only did Lewis
have to combat his own nerves and fears, he had to overcome a dissenter
within his own camp. With behind-the-scenes insight into the intense rivalry
between Hamilton and his teammate Fernando Alonso which threatened to derail
the young Briton's dream, and the low-down on the 'spy-gate' scandal and the
loss of McLaren's constructors' points, bestselling sports author Frank
Worrall describes how Lewis handled the intensity of the media scrum and
kept his dignity to emerge triumphant as he racked up sensational wins
around the world.
Lewis Hamilton's explosive arrival on the Formula 1 scene has made
front-page headlines. In My Story, for the first time Lewis opens up about
his stunning debut season, including the gripping climax to the 2007 F1
World Championship, as well as his dad Anthony, his home life and his early
years. The only book with the real story, as told by Lewis. In his first
season in F1, Lewis Hamilton has thrilled the world of motor racing. With
victories in Canada, America and Hungary and Japan he led the World Drivers'
Championship, right up to the last race of the season. But bare statistics
alone do scant justice to the amazing impact Lewis Hamilton has had on the
sporting landscape this year.
2007 witnessed the greatest debut Grand Prix season in history, as McLaren's
22-year-old novice Lewis Hamilton set the sporting world alight with his
extraordinary on-track exploits. The buzz surrounding this young man had
been growing, but no one could have been prepared for the way he exploded
onto the Formula One scene with podium finishes in his first nine races,
including wins in Canada and the United States, to become the youngest
person ever to top the drivers' championship.Allegations of illicit team
orders in Monaco, and a cloak-and-dagger espionage scandal involving McLaren
and rivals Ferrari have added spice to a season in which F1 has been
gloriously thrust back into the limelight, while the sometimes fractious
relationship between Hamilton and his teammate Fernando Alonso has also made
headlines. But the biggest story of all has been Hamilton himself, and many
within F1 are now predicting that this young man will dominate the scene for
years to come. In this book, author Gareth Rogers chronicles the rise of
British sport's new superstar, charting his early days and his progression
from karts to cars, followed by the whirlwind success of his record-breaking
first season.
F1: Through the Eyes of Damon Hill is the
dramatic behind-the-scenes story of the world of Formula One racing. It is a
story of global proportions, deep human feelings and sporting magnificence
which sweeps from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne
through to the grand finale in Japan, where the nine-month season ends. In
his own words, Hill charts the roller-coaster emotions and excitement of the
marathon 16-race Grand Prix circus. He describes the strains, and pressures
behind the garage doors; the massive effort required to revive a title
challenge with his new Jordan team, the fears and thrills. Brilliantly
illustrated, here is the world's fastest, most seductive - and expensive -
sport as it really is. From the clamour and glamour of the pit lane to the
privacy of the motor home, Damon Hill describes what it feels like to
compete with Schumacher, Coulthard, Villeneuve and others for the 1998
Formula One World Championship. This is no 'Diary of a Season' fanzine but
an intensely personal, thematic account of the most seductive sport of all -
its rivalries the crucial importance of technology, and the pencil-thin
margin between the chequered flag and failure.
A must for Damon Hill fans seeking an
insider's view of the racing legend, this book recounts his early years and the triumphs and disappointments which paved the way to
the World Championship title.
Damon Hill, the world's No 2 Formula One racing driver
(after Michael Schumacher) in 1994 and 1995, believes that third time will be lucky in 1996, especially as his foe and rival has
transferred to the Ferrari team this year. This book not only provides a guide to Damon Hill's 1996 Grand Prix season, but it also
studies the world of the Formula One driver and a gruelling season of 16 circuits spread across the globe. It describes the heady
feelings of euphoria after a victory or the profound disappointment of defeat, and captures the passion and the pressure of the most
high-profile, most glamorous and most dangerous sport of all.
